"The road to the lesbian nation is not an easy one": "us" and "them" in Diva magazine

Social Semiotics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 377-388

  Turner, Georgina ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical discourse analysis; Ideological square; Lesbian identity; Media discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849118133     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350330802217147     Document Type: Article

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